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Another year, another Cannes Film Festival in the, er, can. This year the prestigious cinematic showcase celebrated its 75th year (fun fact: Brief Encounter competed in the first). It was seen as something of a return to normality, with glitzy premieres for Hollywood mega-movies, like Top Gun: Maverick and Elvis, …

The 75th Cannes Film Festival is drawing to a close, and the general consensus is that it’s been a successful event where most of the movies have been of a pretty solid standard. In other words it’s been a teensy bit dull, with even Cronenberg’s Crimes Of The Future – …

“You have to listen to what isn’t being said!” remarks a character in Kelly Reichardt’s latest, an observation that applies not just to the First Cow filmmaker’s latest minimalist effort but pretty much every film she’s directed so far. It’s particularly apposite this time around, though, in that her lead …

Though there have been plenty of eye-catching films among this year’s competition titles (Holy Spider, Decision To Leave, the divisive Triangle Of Sadness), none have really had the heft of a worthy Palme d’Or recipient. None too have felt like the sort of picture that goes on to have a …

A budding young cartoonist’s picaresque rite of passage forms an entertaining foundation for this lo-fi feature debut from New York director Owen Kline, a protégé of the Safdie brothers who appears to have a direct line to the scrappy, nervous energy of early ’70s cinema. Playing in the Directors’ Fortnight …

Movies about the 20th century’s greatest musicians are having something of a moment at Cannes Film Festival. Sandwiched between Ethan Coen’s archival Jerry Lee Lewis documentary, and Baz Luhrman’s all-singing, all-dancing Elvis biopic is Moonage Daydream – a David Bowie doc like no other about an artist without equal. This is …

In the pantheon of filmmakers whose surnames also double as adjectives David Cronenberg stands apart. After all, plenty of directors have made films that could be described as ‘Hitchcockian’ or ‘Kubrickian’, but venture into ‘Cronenbergian’ territory at your peril. The Canadian controversy-magnet’s first unashamed body horror in 23 years, Crimes …

Hitchcockian vibes abound in the sumptuous new melodrama from Park Chan-wook, a murder mystery love story that marks the South Korean helmer’s first film at Cannes since 2016’s The Handmaiden. An achingly romantic throwback to the noirs of yesteryear, it’s a contemporary crime thriller with a distinctly retro vibe: the …

The crimes, pursuit and eventual punishment of a real-life killer of women who preyed on unsuspecting sex workers in early 2000s Iran are chillingly reprised in this grimly compelling procedural. Reminiscent in form and trappings to the likes of David Fincher’s Zodiac, Michael Mann’s Manhunter, and the 1967 film adaptation …

The last time Ruben Östlund came to Cannes with his art world-skewering The Square, he took home the Palme d’Or. Five years on and five days into the festival’s 2022 iteration, he could be looking at a second. Blisteringly funny, narratively intrepid and plain old spitting mad, Triangle Of Sadness …